Nutritional analysis and evaluation of the consumer acceptance of pork pâté enriched with cricket powder - preliminary study

AbstractThe growing interest in insects as food ingredients on the one hand is controversial, on the other is in line with the recommendations of international organizations, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Crickets, as well as cricket powder (CP), are a source of high quality protein, fat, vitamins and minerals. This paper analyzes the impact of CP additive (2%, 6% and 10%) on the nutritional value and consumer acceptance of enriched pâtés. It was shown that the CP additive significantly increases the content of protein, fat and minerals. It also changes the color of the product, which is darker (lower L* value), and the color balance is shifted towards the blue. Consumer assessment showed that the 2% CP additive allows to obtain a product of high attractiveness for consumers.

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Floods Risk Mapping and Assessing Vulnerability of Morang, Nepal

10.21203/rs.3.rs-150717/v2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Pawan Thapa ◽

Narayan Thapa

Keyword(s):

Drainage Density ◽

Google Earth ◽

Food And Agriculture ◽

Food And Agriculture Organization ◽

Digital Elevation ◽

Two Factors ◽

Flooding Risk ◽

Elevation Model ◽

The One ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background: The impact of flooding rises due to unplanned settlements, especially in developing and underdeveloped countries. This study tries to address these issues by mapping flood risk places and assessing their impact on population and household.Methods: This study used the dataset available in Google Earth Engine (GEE), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Central Bureau Statistics (CBS), Earth Data for preparing slope, drainage density, digital elevation model, rainfall, land use map, and soil map. These maps create using GEE and QGIS through overlay analysis that has two factors. The one is influence and other slopes, and it has provided high and low value according to its role on flooding.Results: The risk assessment shows around twenty-four percent population is at higher risk, whereas more than three thousand settlements are prone to flooding. It depicts a significant increasing trend of floods in the Morang district.Conclusion: This settlement risk map can help determine the flood safe and very high-risk areas in the Morang district. It will support residential places' planning by the local government, urban planners, and community people to reduce flooding risk.

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Floods Risk Mapping and Assessing Vulnerability of Morang, Nepal

10.21203/rs.3.rs-150717/v3 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Pawan Thapa ◽

Narayan Thapa

Keyword(s):

Drainage Density ◽

Google Earth ◽

Food And Agriculture ◽

Food And Agriculture Organization ◽

Digital Elevation ◽

Two Factors ◽

Flooding Risk ◽

Elevation Model ◽

The One ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background: The impact of flooding rises due to unplanned settlements, especially in developing countries. This study tries to address these issues by mapping flood risk places and assessing their impact on population and household.Methods: This study used the dataset available in Google Earth Engine (GEE), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Central Bureau Statistics (CBS), Earth Data for preparing slope, drainage density, digital elevation model, rainfall, land use map, and soil map. These maps create using GEE and QGIS through overlay analysis that has two factors. The one is influence and other slopes, and it has provided high and low value according to its role on flooding.Results: The risk assessment shows around twenty-four percent population is at higher risk, whereas more than three thousand settlements are prone to flooding. It depicts a significant increasing trend of floods in the Morang district.Conclusion: This settlement risk map can help determine the flood safe and very high-risk areas in the Morang district. It will support residential places' planning by the local government, urban planners, and community people to reduce flooding risk.

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Mapping Floods Risk and Assessing Flood Vulnerability for Settlement Areas

10.21203/rs.3.rs-150717/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Pawan Thapa ◽

Narayan Thapa

Keyword(s):

Drainage Density ◽

Google Earth ◽

Food And Agriculture ◽

Food And Agriculture Organization ◽

Digital Elevation ◽

Two Factors ◽

Flooding Risk ◽

Elevation Model ◽

The One ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background The impact of flooding rises due to unplanned settlements, especially in developing and underdeveloped countries. This study tries to address these issues by mapping flood risk places and assessing their impact on population and household. Methods This study used the dataset available in Google Earth Engine (GEE), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Central Bureau Statistics (CBS), Earth Data for preparing slope, drainage density, digital elevation model, rainfall, land use map, and soil map. These maps create using GEE and QGIS through overlay analysis that has two factors. The one is influence and other slopes, and it has provided high and low value according to its role on flooding. Results The risk assessment shows around twenty-four percent population is at higher risk, whereas more than three thousand settlements are prone to flooding. It depicts a significant increasing trend of floods in the Morang district. Conclusion This settlement risk map can help determine the flood safe and very high-risk areas in the Morang district. It will support residential places' planning by the local government, urban planners, and community people to reduce flooding risk.

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Impact of Ex-Closure in above and below Ground Carbon Stock Biomass

Forests ◽

10.3390/f12020130 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 130

Author(s):

Gedion Tsegay ◽

Xiang-Zhou Meng

Keyword(s):

Carbon Emissions ◽

Carbon Stock ◽

Scientific Journal ◽

Resource Assessment ◽

Forest Loss ◽

Intergovernmental Panel ◽

Food And Agriculture ◽

Food And Agriculture Organization ◽

Below Ground ◽

The Impact

Globally, there is a serious issue in carbon stock due to high deforestation and the loss of land, limited carbon storage pools in aboveground and underground forests in different regions, and increased carbon emissions to the atmosphere. This review paper highlights the impact of exclosures on above and below ground carbon stocks in biomass as a solution to globally curb carbon emissions. The data has been analyzed dependent on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Forest Resource Assessment report (FRA, 2020), and scientific journal publications mostly from the last decade, to show the research results of carbon stock and the impact of exclosures, particularly the challenges of deforestation and erosion of land and opportunities of area exclosures to provide a general outlook for policymakers. Overall, the world’s forest regions are declining, and although the forest loss rate has slowed, it has still not stopped sufficiently because the knowledge and practice of exclosures are limited. The global forest loss and carbon stock have decreased from 7.8 million ha/yr to 4.7 million ha/yr and from 668 gigatons to 662 gigatons respectively due to multiple factors that differ across the regions. However, a move toward natural rehabilitation and exclosures to reduce the emissions of Greenhouse Gas (GHGs) is needed. In the global production of carbon, the exclosure of forests plays an important role, in particular for permanent sinks of carbon.

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Profiles of Food Insecurity: Similarities and Differences across Selected CEE Countries

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14165070 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (16) ◽

pp. 5070

Author(s):

Hanna Dudek ◽

Joanna Myszkowska-Ryciak ◽

Agnieszka Wojewódzka-Wiewiórska

Keyword(s):

Food Insecurity ◽

Sociodemographic Factors ◽

Household Composition ◽

Eastern European ◽

Food And Agriculture ◽

Food And Agriculture Organization ◽

Development Goals ◽

Logistic Regressions ◽

Different Characteristics ◽

The Impact

Food security (FS) is influenced by primarily financial but also sociodemographic factors. Identification of correlates of food insecurity (FI) is a crucial issue in the context of achieving sustainable development goals. The aims of the study were: (1) to recognize FI in the selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, (2) to examine common socioeconomic and demographic characteristics for FI. The analysis used the set of eight-item FI indicators adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization, applying the Gallup World Poll survey data from 2017 to 2019. Multinomial logistic regressions were used to examine FI at mild and moderate or severe levels compared with FS. Differences in the profiles of FI were observed in analyzed countries: Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia. Lithuanians experienced the lowest FS, and Slovaks the highest. The FI status was associated with education, gender, age, household composition and income. It was found that the impact of these factors was not the same in the examined countries. Differences in profiles of FI in CEE countries indicate the need to analyze the problem individually for each country. Identifying groups particularly vulnerable to FI may allow appropriate targeting of instruments counteracting FI and adapt them to people with different characteristics.

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Bicluster CC Algoritm Analysis to Identify Patterns of Food Insecurity in Indonesia

Jurnal Matematika Statistika dan Komputasi ◽

10.20956/jmsk.v17i2.12057 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 325-338

Author(s):

Raditya Novidianto ◽

Rini Irfani

Keyword(s):

Food Insecurity ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Parameter Tuning ◽

Mean Square ◽

Calorie Consumption ◽

Food And Agriculture ◽

Food And Agriculture Organization ◽

The Mean ◽

Best Parameter ◽

The One

Indonesia is known as an agricultural country. This means that most of the population work in the agricultural sector related to food. However, food insecurity still occurs in Indonesia. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated that there was a threat of food scarcity which had an impact on food insecurity conditions. This would undermine the second goal of the SDGs, which is to end hunger and create sustainable agriculture. The purpose of this study was to determine the spatial pattern of food insecurity in each province in Indonesia using the bicluster method. The data used are data from Susenas and Sakernas by BPS in 2019. Several studies show that the bicluster method with the CC algorithm shows that each province group has a different characteristic pattern. In the bicluster approach, the researcher runs parameter tuning to select the best parameter based on the Mean Square Residual in Volume (MSR / V). The CC algorithm tries to get a bicluster with a low MSR value, therefore the best parameter is the one that produces the smallest MSR / V value, in this study the smallest MSR / V is 0,01737 with δ = 0,01. The application of the CC biclustering algorithm to the food insecurity structure in Indonesia results in 5 bicluster. Bicluster 1 consists of 15 provinces with 8 variables, Bicluster 2 consists of 10 provinces with 5 variables, Bicluster 3 consists of 3 provinces with 7 variables, Bicluster 4 consists of 4 provinces with 4 variables and Bicluster 5 consists of 2 provinces with 5 variables. Biculster 4 represents a cluster of food insecurity areas with the characteristics of the bicluster P0, P1, P2 and calorie consumption of less than 1400 KKAL.

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The provision of fishery information by ICES–WGFTFB to assessment working groups: use of information and lessons learned

ICES Journal of Marine Science ◽

10.1093/icesjms/fsr099 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 68 (8) ◽

pp. 1809-1814

Author(s):

Dominic Rihan ◽

Norman Graham ◽

Dave G. Reid ◽

Colm Lordan

Keyword(s):

Marine Ecosystem ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Ecosystem Impacts ◽

Food And Agriculture ◽

Food And Agriculture Organization ◽

Regulatory Frameworks ◽

Working Groups ◽

Impact Of Technology ◽

Fleet Dynamics ◽

The Impact

Abstract Rihan, D., Graham, N., Reid, D. G., and Lordan, C. 2011. The provision of fishery information by ICES–WGFTFB to assessment working groups: use of information and lessons learned. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 1809–1814. ICES is now asked to provide advice that is more holistic in nature, including information on the influence and effects of human activities on the marine ecosystem. From a fishing-technology perspective, this includes information on how fishers respond and adapt to changes in regulatory frameworks, the impact of technology creep, ecosystem impacts, and changes in fleet dynamics. Recognizing the importance of this, in 2005, the ICES–Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Working Group on Fish Technology and Fish Behaviour (WGFTFB) began to collect data and information to support scientific advice on fisheries and ecosystem issues through a questionnaire circulated to its members. The information from the questionnaires was collated by the WGFTFB and submitted in the form of summary documents to various ICES assessment working groups. This paper describes the background to this initiative, the questionnaire structure, the type of information provided, and its utility.

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FOOD SECURITY AND AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN UZBEKISTAN

Kokand University Herald ◽

10.54613/001012 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

I.I Khamidov

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Food Security ◽

Food Supply ◽

Economic Recession ◽

World Health ◽

Food And Agriculture ◽

Food And Agriculture Organization ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization ◽

The Impact

Since January 2020, the world faced one of the largest outbreaks of human history that coronavirus (Covid-19) began spreading among countries across the globe. Plenty of research institutes developed insights and estimations regarding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on agriculture and food security system. The UN estimations indicate that more than 132 million people around the world may have hunger due to the economic recession as a result of the pandemic. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is pushing forward the strategies in order for increasing food supply in developing countries and providing assistance to food producers and suppliers. World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that the pandemic may not finish by the end of 2020 and countries should be prepared for longer effects within 2021. In this regard, ensuring food security as well as sufficient food supply would be one of the crucial aspects of policy functions in developing countries.

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The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

Earth System Science Data ◽

10.5194/essd-13-3927-2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (8) ◽

pp. 3927-3950

Author(s):

Maurizio Santoro ◽

Oliver Cartus ◽

Nuno Carvalhais ◽

Danaë M. A. Rozendaal ◽

Valerio Avitabile ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Spatial Patterns ◽

Carbon Stock ◽

Dry Mass ◽

Satellite Observations ◽

Economic Modelling ◽

Food And Agriculture ◽

Food And Agriculture Organization ◽

Dry Tropical Forests ◽

High Level ◽

The Impact

Abstract. The terrestrial forest carbon pool is poorly quantified, in particular in regions with low forest inventory capacity. By combining multiple satellite observations of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) backscatter around the year 2010, we generated a global, spatially explicit dataset of above-ground live biomass (AGB; dry mass) stored in forests with a spatial resolution of 1 ha. Using an extensive database of 110 897 AGB measurements from field inventory plots, we show that the spatial patterns and magnitude of AGB are well captured in our map with the exception of regional uncertainties in high-carbon-stock forests with AGB >250 Mg ha−1, where the retrieval was effectively based on a single radar observation. With a total global AGB of 522 Pg, our estimate of the terrestrial biomass pool in forests is lower than most estimates published in the literature (426–571 Pg). Nonetheless, our dataset increases knowledge on the spatial distribution of AGB compared to the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and highlights the impact of a country's national inventory capacity on the accuracy of the biomass statistics reported to the FRA. We also reassessed previous remote sensing AGB maps and identified major biases compared to inventory data, up to 120 % of the inventory value in dry tropical forests, in the subtropics and temperate zone. Because of the high level of detail and the overall reliability of the AGB spatial patterns, our global dataset of AGB is likely to have significant impacts on climate, carbon, and socio-economic modelling schemes and provides a crucial baseline in future carbon stock change estimates. The dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.894711 (Santoro, 2018).

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Exploration of consumer acceptance of insects as food in Poland

Journal of Insects as Food and Feed ◽

10.3920/jiff2019.0055 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 383-392 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E. Zielińska ◽

D. Zieliński ◽

M. Karaś ◽

A. Jakubczyk

Keyword(s):

Online Survey ◽

Strong Predictor ◽

Consumer Acceptance ◽

Chi Square ◽

Food Ingredients ◽

Several Variables ◽

Final Sample ◽

Willingness To Buy ◽

Chi Square Test ◽

Insects As Food

In the last decade, increasing attention has been focused on entomophagy in Europe. However, Western societies rarely experience insects as a food source. Depending on the country, the approach to entomophagy is variables. This study was performed to assess the perception of entomophagy in the Polish population and comparison with other European societies. An online survey was conducted with a final sample of 419 participants. Several variables were established, and their influence on the acceptance of insect was analysed by applying the Chi-square test of independence. We found that the respondents had limited knowledge about entomophagy; hence, willingness to eat insects is limited by unawareness and neophobia. The attitude towards insects is a strong predictor of the readiness to eat insects and buy insect-based products. The results have shown that processed insect products can increase consumers’ willingness to buy insect-based products. It should be noted that almost 60% of the 15.51% of the respondents who had eaten insects previously rated the insect taste as good and very good. We conclude that higher awareness of entomophagy is required to accept insects as food besides the willingness to try. Moreover, the future of insect consumption depends on the sensory characteristics (appearance, smell, taste) of insect-based products; hence, food industry should focus on processed foods with insect based food ingredients to make them familiar to consumers.

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